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- NSF STIS - Science and Technology Information System
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- STIS
- National Science Foundation
- Division of Information Systems (Room 401)
- 1800 G Street NW
- Washington, DC 20550
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- _E_m_a_i_l: stis-request@nsf.gov
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (202) 357-7555 (Voice mail)
- TDD: (202) 357-7492
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- STIS is an electronic dissemination system that provides
- fast, easy access to National Science Foundation (NSF) pub-
- lications. There is no cost to you except for possible
- long-distance phone charges. The service is available
- twenty-four hours a day, except for maintenance periods.
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- Publications currently available include:
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- o+ "The NSF Bulletin"
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- o+ Program announcements and "Dear Colleague" letters
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- o+ General publications and reports
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- o+ Press releases
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- o+ NSF organization charts and phone books
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- o+ NSF vacancy announcements
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- o+ Award abstracts (1989-now)
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
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- June 11, 1992 NNSC Section 3.27, Page 1
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- There are many ways to access STIS. Choose the method that
- meets your needs and the communication facilities you have
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- o+ Electronic documents via electronic mail. Send a mes-
- sage to "stisserv@nsf.gov". Put the command "get
- index" in the text of your message.
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- o+ Anonymous FTP. Connect to "stis.nsf.gov". Retrieve
- the file "index".
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- o+ Direct E-mail. This service automatically mails you
- information about documents added to STIS. For infor-
- mation on this, send the command "get stisdirm" to
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- o+ Gopher. Connect to port 70 on host "stis.nsf.gov".
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- o+ WAIS. There are two databases on "stis.nsf.gov".
- "nsf-pubs" contains all documents and publications,
- and "nsf-awards" contains award abstracts.
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- o+ Online STIS. You must have a VT100 emulator. Telnet
- to "stis.nsf.gov", and log on as "public".
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _S_y_s_t_e_m
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- STIS is available to the public. There is no charge for any
- of the services, and no need to register for a password.
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